From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9310 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Some texexec/MP problems Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:52:52 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020918132419.0278df98@server-1> References: <20020918115740.531f962d.morawski@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399650 2206 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:00:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:00:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt Original-To: Jens-Uwe Morawski In-Reply-To: <20020918115740.531f962d.morawski@gmx.net> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9310 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9310 At 11:57 AM 9/18/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote: >Hi, > >i have some problems with the MP support of texexec: > >1. a MP input that has no line-break or whitespace after the "end" > results in mptrace.mp in "endend" > > Thus a job 'texexec --mptex myfile.mp' does not > finish correctly. Maybe texexec should add an additional line-break. ok, i'll add an newline >2. many of my MP files include more than 100 figures. > I use currently > > texexec --pdf --fig=c myfile.[0-9] myfile.[1-9][0-9] myfile.[1-9][0-9][0-9] > > to have all figures in _one_ PDF file. But the result ist always the file > texexec.pdf. The texexec option --result=myfile.pdf leads to a missing > myfile.mps. Is this a bug? not that i know, btw, no .pdf is needed after myfile.pdf; are you sure that texexec.pdf is not kept open by some app? >3. The strange looking 'myfile.[0-9] myfile.[1-9][0-9] myfile.[1-9][0-9][0-9]' > is necessary to keep the order of the figures, since normally 'myfile.*' > expands in a shell to 'myfile.1 myfile.10 myfile.11 ... myfile.2' > > Is it possible to let > 'texexec --pdf --fig=c myfile' expand the file-names correctly itself? hm, the familiar sort by name of number problem; i'll send you some files to test Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------